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Monday, November 18, 2024
*Top Ten Tuesday* The Oldest Books on My TBR (Nov. 19)
Friday, November 15, 2024
*Book Blogger Hop* Annotated Books (November 15, 2024)
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
*Review* Avocado Magic by Taltal Levi
Ellie is sulking—she celebrated her birthday yesterday under the old avocado tree. But she’s not even a little bit taller today! Dad tells Ellie a secret. She is like the pit of an avocado, he explains, small and full of magic. Together they put an avocado seed in a glass of water by the window and watch as both Ellie and her avocado plant grow, take root, and eventually bring new life.
In Taltal Levi’s native country Israel, avocados are ubiquitous and plucked straight from the tree. In her third book, Taltal Levi uses warm, earthy colors to tell a personal yet universal story about the magic of growth.
Includes instructions for growing your own avocado tree!
Monday, November 11, 2024
*Top Ten Tuesday* Destination Titles
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Saturday, November 9, 2024
*Stacking the Shelves* November 9, 2024
Stacking The Shelves is a feature/weekly meme run by Reading Reality in which you share the books you are adding to your shelves, both physical and virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!
Now, I already have a monthly post I do featuring the books I get in the mail (and it's a lot because I have a serious Goodreads First Reads giveaway addiction), and I'm posting my monthly Read-A-Thon posts again too, which covers the books I receive through Netgalley. So my STS post will feature all the books I've been one-clicking on Amazon, ebook Goodreads wins, and the rare physical book I buy at the store.
Because I missed posting this last week (I was just way too busy with starting a new job and having 5 book club meetings in a single week, plus a silent read get-together), here are the last two weeks worth of books. I will only be featuring a few of the freebies I've been one-clicking, because I'm still on my shit where free ebooks are concerned.
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Friday, November 8, 2024
*Book Blogger Hop* November 8th, 2024
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Thursday, November 7, 2024
*Review* Bread Machine Baking for Beginners by Beth Hensperger
Discover how easy it is to make delicious homemade bread in your bread machine.
With this affordable, abridged edition of the best-selling Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook, learn how to make and bake bread in any brand of bread machine by combining the simplest of ingredients—flour, yeast, water, and salt. Offering complete, easy-to-follow instructions on using bread makers as well as a wide range of recipe variations for making all kinds of loaves, Bread Machine Baking for Beginners is the only book you will need to launch your bread-making success.
Filled with step-by-step photographs, this guide to machine bread baking includes recipes and instructions for everything from white sandwich bread to french baguettes to sourdoughs and seeded breads. Instructions on shaping, decorating, kneading, no-knead breads, and enriched breads are also included.
In Bread Machine Baking for Beginners, you will find:
- The basics of bread baking
- Tons of recipes, from the basic to more adventurous, all created with the beginner in mind
- Troubleshooting tips for bread machine–baking issues
- Ways to use your bread machine for other baked goods such as muffins and pizza dough
This book provides the perfect introduction for new bread-making enthusiasts and a great refresher for bread-machine veterans who want to dust of their bread machine.
Put an end to tasteless store-bought bread—use this guide and your bread machine to have fresh, tasty homemade bread instead. It’s easy and it’s fun!
Beth Hensperger, a New Jersey native who has lived in California since her teens, has been educating, writing, and demo-lecturing about the art of baking for over 30 years. In the last few years, she has shifted focus to countertop appliance–driven cookbooks that embrace adapting traditional and professional recipes for the home cook: the bread machine, the rice cooker, the microwave, and a four-volume compilation specifically for use with the electric slow cooker, stressing personal creativity in preparation and selection of ingredients.
Hensperger is the author of over 22 cookbooks, including the best-selling Not Your Mother’s series, which includes: Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Recipes for Two,Not Your Mother’s Microwave Cookbook, Not Your Mother’s Fondue, Not Your Mother’s Casseroles Revised and Expanded Edition, and Not Your Mother’s Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook Revised and Expanded Edition, along with the blockbuster first volume, Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook. Her other books include highly-acclaimed titles such as The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook and The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook. She is also the author of The Bread Bible (Chronicle Books), winner of a James Beard Award in 2000. She has twice been nominated for the Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award.
Hensperger wrote a San Jose Mercury News food column for twelve years, Baking with the Seasons. She is a contributor to dozens of national and online cooking and lifestyle magazines, such as Food & Wine, Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine, Veggie Life, Cooking Light, Working Woman, Victoria, Prevention, and Family Circle, and is a sought-after newspaper and radio interviewee speaking on slow cooking, bread baking, and entertaining. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Visit her website at bethhensperger.com and blog at notyourmotherscookbook.com.